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Is There a Thing Called Dyslexia?
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Aaron, P. G.; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1988
Reading-disabled children (n=36) in grades four through eight were matched for reading comprehension and placed into two groups based on listening comprehension. Poor readers with normal listening comprehension had average or above intelligence quotients, conforming to the traditional definition of dyslexia and contrasting with poor readers with…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dyslexia, Educational Diagnosis, Etiology
Understanding Reading Comprehension: Cognition, Language, and the Structure of Prose.
Flood, James, Ed. – 1984
Intended to illuminate current understanding of how the reader's cognition and language and the text's structure affect the processing of prose, this volume contains articles written by educators, linguists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence experts on issues of comprehension research. The first part of the book examines reading…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Using Oral and Written Language Responses from Two Language Inventories and Data from a Non-Verbal IQ Test to Predict ESL Reading Performance.
Perkins, Kyle; And Others – 1984
A study of predictors of reading comprehension in English as a second language had as subjects 33 adult students in full-time intensive English classes at the intermediate and advanced levels of reading. Each was tested with an oral and a written language inventory, and each response was recorded as syntagmatic or paradigmatic. Other tests…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Intelligence Tests
Multiple Paths to Literacy: Corrective Reading Techniques for Classroom Teachers. Fourth Edition.
Gipe, Joan P. – 1998
Intended for classroom teachers at all levels and for undergraduate students in teacher education programs that included a practicum or field experience, this book provides both a guide and a resource for meeting the needs of readers experiencing difficulty. This fourth edition focuses on providing teachers with techniques for recognizing readers…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Corrective Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Reading Comprehension II. Bibliographies and Summaries of Selected Articles. Volume 6. Research Review Series.
MacGinitie, Walter H.; And Others – 1979
Summaries of several papers are presented to develop a working theoretical analysis of reading comprehension and an understanding of development in language comprehension based upon empirical studies. Contributions from the areas of assessment, artificial intelligence, cognition (including schema theory), instruction, linguistics, learning…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Activating & Engaging Habits of Mind. A Developmental Series, Book 2.
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed. – 2000
This book is the second in a four-book series on habits of mind. It translates a habits of mind approach to education into action using classroom-tested advice. Contributions come from practitioners in literature, math, music, foreign language, reading, character education, and social science. After "Series Foreword: Thinking on the Road of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping